The second most awesome D&D news ever.

[brainface]

Look at that dragon! He has HANDS, as if he were once a man! Witness this parch, dry world or ruins! Gaze upon that dying sun, and DESPAIR!

Link mcLinkerson:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20090814

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

It's certainly one of the most.......evocative covers I've seen D&D do, and 4e especially.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Man I wish I had time for gaming.

[Lmns Crn]

Dark Sun is one of the most interesting published worlds out there. If you haven't had the pleasure yet, go familiarize yourself with it.

[XXsiriusXX]

it's about damn time that they updated this setting. now i can only hope that they will update Spelljammer.

[Steerpike]

*Salivates*

Makes me want to pick up the other 4E books just for this.

[sparkletwist]

That makes me wonder what the first most awesome D&D news ever is/was. :P

[Nomadic]

That makes me wonder what the first most awesome D&D news ever is/was. :P

That Gary Gygax Di-*killed by angry fanboys*

(just kidding of course)

[Xeviat]

That's pretty sweet. And it's nice that it's going to be a world to take advantage of the psionic goodness in PHB3. I might actually use Dark Sun, unlike FR and Eberron.

[Gamer Printshop]

Like many, I was one those who played Athas, back in 2e days. The idea of the setting is really cool. If it were something you read on the back cover of a book describing what it inside - you might think, wow, this sounds awesome.

But then I played Dark Sun, and I really quite hated the whole thing. One player, our old DM, pushed it to death, but we never played more than 3 sessions of it. I at the time, was the most not into it. Our group fractionalized into two camps. The DM led his with a single follower. I led the rest. Like I said, after 3 sessions. We never played again.

To see it back again - I guess I didn't drive the stake far enough into its heart. Somehow, it has come back. Oh well, I ain't gonna touch it - not to mention its for 4e, even less reason to look at it.

But that's just me.

GP

[Elemental_Elf]

Let's just hope they don't drop the ball with this like they did with Forgotten Realms...

[Kindling]

Excellent news, great artwork, and from the interview they linked to it sounds like it should be a great product... although, a great 4e product... which means, I shan't be playing it. Shame. I always liked the idea of Dark Sun, despite never having played it.

[Acrimone]

Now what I want to know is this: WHERE IS MY DAMN CHARACTER VISUALIZER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Pair o' Dice Lost]

This is great news, but I don't know if I trust WotC to do it well after the cluster**** that was 4e FR and the "minor tweaks" to 4e Eberron (that were actually significant changes).  I'd love to play Dark Sun again, but not any version from them, and it's certainly not enough to get me to use 4e.

Like many, I was one those who played Athas, back in 2e days. The idea of the setting is really cool. If it were something you read on the back cover of a book describing what it inside - you might think, wow, this sounds awesome.

But then I played Dark Sun, and I really quite hated the whole thing.

Might I ask what about it you hated?

[Gamer Printshop]

I wasn't a great lover of psionics at the time, and this was when our group did a big time plunge into psionics. With power gamers rules were bending right away. So the reality was the group dynamic in tryin to use the system more. Everything thing was psionic all the monsters, from the simplist beast upward. The constructs of the Will and the Way, seemed to complicate 2e psionics even more for me.

The cannibal, cliff dwelling halflings turned that race into monsters. If you weren't playing a psionicist or spell caster, everyone was a mul fighter.

In some ways I see the Barsoom of the pulp fiction, in some ways science fiction.

It was interesting, but I guess so exotic it was outside my comfort zone, and that's why not my taste. I can say that I appreciate the creativity in the setting, but I don't want to play in it.

I am also not a 4e guy and I've looked at the system - not complicated enough for me!

GP